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Friday, February 18, 1977
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Whistle draws voters
A total of 4,209 students voted in this
student Senate elections—a record
number.
This record turnout, however, does not indicate a sudden surge of student interest in Student Senate politics or in student government in general. It indicates, rather, a considerable student interest in the Student Senate questionnaire, particularly in the question regarding whether to keep the whistle.
MORE STUDENTS vote on the questionnaire than voted for all three major presidential candidates. Students even cared about whether they would vote ballots and attempt to stuff the ballot box.
Higher voter interest in the questionnaire than in the election itself should come as no surprise. The Senate election gave students nothing but the chance to choose from among three coalitions that seemed basically the same. There may well have been some fundamental differences between the candidates, but very few students could
discern them beneath the mountains of posters and slogans and balloons.
The questionnaire, however, gave students themselves a chance to express their opinions.
This election's questionnaire should it only a beginning. There should be more questionaires in future elections—maybe even a referendum or two.
PEOPLE DON'T care about Senate politics, but they do care about many of the issues before the Senate. They do care about their activity fee goes and what is included in that. They go through all the layers of prejudice against and mistrust of Student Politics; they care.
Questionnaires and referendums will increase the average student's say and, presumably, his interest. Maybe someday this interest will blossom to the point that 4,209 - a whopping 19 per cent of the eligible voters - won't be hailed as a large turnout and will be, instead, acknowledged as the pathetic number it is.
Dawn's early light
Steve Leben is KU's new student body president. And it sure took everyone long enough to find out.
Student body presidential candidates, friends, reporters and all sorts of other interested parties were kept awake and sitting on the edges of their seats last night and this morning as the election returns were slowly and laboriously tabulated.
The winner was finally announced shortly before 7 this morning.
ADMITTEDLY, counting ballots is hard work, and the people doing the counting have to be careful and accurate. But last night's
counting could have been done much more quickly and efficiently.
Five people worked last night counting the ballots; one reading and four writing them down. A few more people would have come in very handy, as would some sort of team system to double-check without tying up the whole vote counting delegation.
The people who counted the ballots deserve thanks and credit for staying awake all night and deserve some criticism for not planning the whole thing a little better.
It's awfully hard to have a victory party at 7 a.m.
Involvement - it's a word we all too frequently hear spoken by University administrators, professors, politicians and speech-makers as they try to imbue in us those merits that one day could bring a rewarding and fulfilling job.
Involvement primarily connotes a relationship with someone or something, but also means much more. It means caring and understanding; it means giving and receiving; it means empathy, compassion, commitment and patience.
This week's student elections are merely an indication of the current student uninvolvement that borders on insurrection. Students have universities throughout the country.
Apathy kills opportunity
IT'S UNFORTEST that political and social awareness play second fiddle to social and athletic pursuits in the present college generation. It's also unfortunate that University courses, which ostensibly set up to stimulate the
mind, haven't incited active participation in, devotion to, and understanding of contemporary local, American and world problems.
Living in Kansas, almost 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean, it's too easy to be overwhelmed by people aware individuals to close our minds to the world outside. The University's
Paul Addison
Editorial Writer
resources, in terms of individuals, services and materials, contain perhaps the greatest resource that any of us will ever have at our finerines.
For instance, the University's 1,200 student population is the largest in the student population, with invaluable expertise.
knowledge of almost 90 countries,
knowledge frequently dermany
and France, but not so much in
Greece.
THE UNIVERSITY's professors are specialists who are ready to discuss almost any subject from aardvarks to zoology. The library system, too, contains a wealth of pertinent information about everything and everybody.
The late 1960s and early 1970s brimmed with participation, consciousness-raising and other intangible elements associated with those heady days, but the fashionable time of the mid-1970s seems unsurpassed in prospection and self-improvement.
KU ISN't allogether a hotbed (cold-bell) of anpity, as the numerous purrurous sounds
campus and city testify. Organizations exist to cater to the most obscure interests and to help people with personal issues. These organizations promote active discussion of political and philosophical subjects. When it comes down to it, however, all such organizations primarily involve students. Some organizations stand at a standard percentage of the student body.
Why? Analysts contend that lack of involvement shows a rejection of the values of the previous student generation and the need for an economic pressure to find employment.
It's also possibly a result of affluent materialist backgrounds and a feeling that if the problems don't affect one personally, they're irrelevant. Thus, while the opportunity is here and now for involvement in the University, in Kansas and indeed, in the world, few people seem willing to grasp it.
Unfortunately, c'est la vie.
Hustler bares freedom problem
One of the running battles in this country's history is the sporadic confrontation between the government and its fourth cousin, the media, which has a voice as one零件 of freedom of expression.
The cousin received a glancing, but certainly not debilitating, blow last week when Larry Frynt, the publisher of the now-celebrated Huster magazine, was jailed for selling obscenity and engaging in organized crime.
Clayton Kirkpatrick, editor of the Chicago Tribune and recent
THE SECOND charge have never been fully explained, but it is clear that selling obscenity jailing everyone who was in the practice of selling obscenity would seem to rob the United States of all its potential profitability.
winner of the William Allen White Award for Journalistic merit, said last week that he was opposed by the distribution nagazia because he said that he had bought a copy and was
"disgusted" by its degrading pictures of women.
Paul Jefferson Editorial Writer
That is exactly the point.
Although everyone is entitled to his own opinion, however misguided it may be, it is still unfair for him to try and impose his standards on a token public, he awards vary in each community.
"Doing it" it seems to be all the government can do lately, especially in the case of the two Americans who are not so permanently in one case.
number of ways for a different meaning each time.
MEANWHILE, arguments continue about the right or wrong aspects of both capitalism and democracy, which may be more closely related than people realize. The only consistency the government has shown regarding capitalist laissez-faire topics is inconsistency.
"speaking again of the free enterprise system, notice must be taken of another launched T-34 combat aircraft, can only survive in America.
THIS WAXING and waning or interest in pornography sporadically illuminates; only to muddle down again as insulation of morals is tried only if fail, only to be tried again.
This argument goes on and will continue, as public mores vacillate between puritanism and biblical facing six to 25 years in stir and a loss of $10,000, took his conviction with a conviction matched only once before in the face of such adversity. "Let's
THESE T-SHIRTS don't come smelling like pizza or strawberries or grass (the latter are also forms of lingering on the market. Of course, the article of which I'm speaking is from one of my friends, which was on sale recently in which gratefully far from here.
This is strictly a matter for those of us singles who have every intention of staying that way. This is for those who are proud to be always a bridesmaid/groomman and never the bride/bridegroom. We will also need to be for that body of Americans who will never know the joys of matrimony, legitimate children and a nice SBR 2 bolt bath splitiw; w/2c gar. in plant. nbrbd.
How many times has your mother, batting her hopeful eyes, asked you when you were crying? How many times do someone? The next time she does, slug her in the mouth. She'll get the idea. If she weeps wants another grandchild, tell her about the two you squared a
In the past we've passively borne the brunt of married persons' sadden and scorn about being bachelors." We've been made to feel guilty for choosing single despair overwedded bliss—but we have defected the ranks to enter the priesthood, the
Singles should throw off chains
Those of you who are married, who have designs to be married, or who hope and pray to be married some day can read reading right here. This is none of your business.
UNLESS WE do something now, brothers and sisters, the injustices will continue. It is hard, in our own little ways, to strangle them how? you ask. It just so happens that I've compiled a small list of things we can do to earn the respect we do so rightfully. Then, he them, memorize them and above all, put them to use.
example of robbing Peter and paying Peter.
sisterhood and-may God forgive them-parenthood.
Stewart Brann
Editorial Editor
ONE LAST TIME, if you’re married and still reading this, eyes off!!!!!!! Go polish your wedding crystal.
block chairman for the March of Dimes). The next time that happens, pull the wife off to a corner and confide that you wish you had a spouse who thought so highly of you. As you leave the party, thank the chairperson for her conversation, compliment him on his razor-swift wit, then hit him where he lives.
Good . . . now that we're alone; we can talk. You're well aware by now that we singles are truly an oppressed people. You're not in a position to express that oppression from fronts; family, married friends, insurance companies, the IRS, et al.
The T-shirt comes emblazoned with the sardonic smile of the recently executed double murderer, with a heart shape over the left chest that's superimposed on a target.
WHEN WAS the last time you attended a party at which you were the only single in the bum. The others looked upon it and laughed. I bet the guys spent the entire evening exchanging cute anecdotes about "the wife" (she burned the dinner, she couldn't eat) and dressed them with dented the fender, she's so dumb that she was fired as
How much cash have you forked out for gifts for those people? Isn't it time they reciprocate? Send out engraved announcements enclosed in a folded envelope to tastefully shredded edges) that read: "Mr. and Mrs. (parents' names) request the honour of your presence at the confirmation of their marriage to a life of singlehood." You probably won't get anyone to show up for the occasion, but you might at least reap a few matched towel macrame planters, Crockpot and some cornerware.
couple of years ago in Tijuana. That'll shut her up.
NOW IS THE time to stand up and show the world you’re proud of the way of life you’ve learned. You can lead perfectly happy and fulfilled lives without a constant partner at our side. We must make them acknowledge that we, too, are normal, healthy beings, an ability of loving and feeding and caring as they are.
will continue to be a market for magazines such as Hustler. No one is forced to buy the magazines, and yet they are forced off the seemingly welcome shelves of businesses, which are essentially set up to sell books in the system in America to emphasize the satisfaction of the consumer.
DURING COFFEE breaks at work, do your cohorts pull out the latest pictures of their 'little ones' so that everyone can take some pictures of your houseplants and pass them around. Remark how well-behaved you little ones are, and how cheaply they can be taken. And now that doesn't work, tell them you read recently in a medical journal that eight of 10 babies born in this nuclear age aren't likely to live past age four; the adults will be mutants. They'll certainly pause for thought.
The fact is that freedom of expression is guaranteed to everyone, and no reasonable restrictions on any medium can be imposed. The eventual loss of our foremost constitutional privileges.
HOW MANY wedding announcements have you received from friends past and present?
In light of some other current events going on, this selective system of punishment seems to paraphrase an adage to be an
It would seem that no reasonable government (employment) curtail one private enterprise, no matter how vulgar it is, and look with favor on another beware of the "be the ultimate obscurity."
And if they still don't believe you, hit 'em where they live.
The next time the government feels it should intrude on the moral sensibilities of the public, it will be extremely difficult to say "Let's not DO it."
Direct election just adds new ring to old'coon tail
I've told the story before of Robert Whitehead, and would tell it again. He was a countryman who served for many years in the Virginia House of Delegates. He had a pet phrase and hull that is defeated time after time, only to bob up again.
Bob would stand in the well of the House, shaking the offending bill in one hand and pointing to the heavens with the elbow. "Coon," he would cry, "with all round around his tail."
SITTING IN A Senate committee room the other day, I was reminded of old Bob Whitehead. This was a hearing on Senator Birch Bayh's request for an amendment to provide for the direct election of Presidents. It was the same old 'coon.
The morning's first witness was Hubert Humphrey. He sat at the witness table, grey and gaunt, summoning up reserves of energy from his own unquenchable spirit.
"Mr. Chairman," be began,
"I have worked for more than 23 years for the abolition of the Electoral College in favor of direct popular election of the President."
Sitting at the press table, I thought to myself: And I've been working for more than 23 years against it. On an issue like this, Mr. Trump never change; they stay the same. Direct election was proposed at the Constitutional Convention of 1787; it has been urged quadrennially ever since; but whenever this amendment is put to test, its prudence thankfully has come to the Constitution's rescue.
BAYH PROPOSES, as he has proposed before, to abolish the director's single root and the director. The people directly for a presidential-vice presidential ticket. If no ticket received at least 40 percent of the vote, a runoff would be between the two top tickets.
Last week's hearing produced all the old arguments: The present system, written as a compromise into the Constitution of 1787, is politically dangerous. A few maverick
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electors could thwart the will of the people. The system is undemocratic, in that it accords power to a small group of small states than in large states. If a presidential election ever were thrown into the House, where each state casts a vote, the people might rebel. And so on.
James J. Kilpatrick (b) 1977 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
EVENTUALLY, Bayh's subcommittee will get around to
a courteous session for
opponents, and they will make
their familiar arguments also.
They will ask the president
rests on two foundations—separation of powers, and
the principle of federalism. In one stroke, the delicate structure of power would be fatally undermined.
To be consistent, a scheme of direct popular election would demand a uniform ballot in all districts. The need for qualification of presidential
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tickets, uniform rules for challenges and recounts. For all practical purposes, the states would have to yield control of their franchise to a Federal Elections Commission.
Opponents will argue, when they have their inning, that such radical, drastic surgery is unwise and unnecessary. With a much simpler, so-called "district plan," which awards electoral votes according to the number of districts as well as in whole states, the inequities of "winner take all" could be relieved.
Bayh has heard all this before. All of us have heard all this before. This time the Indiana senator has 41 cosponsors to help get the necessary two-thirds of the Senate to accept his resolution. The old system works; it preserves the checks and balances; it needs only modest repair to keep on working. What is the same about the 'coon'; and it is no more appealing this year than it was in 1973.
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